different between photo vs phot

English

Etymology

Clipping of photograph

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??.t??/, [?f??t???]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fo?.to?/, [?f???o?]

Noun

photo (plural photos)

1. (informal) A photograph.
2. (informal) A photo finish.
   • 2005, 28 June, Racing diary: In the shake-up (in The Telegraph) [1]

     By this stage, Goof was clearly warming to his theme and, as they flashed past the post together, he reported that it was a photo. "And I don't know or care who won the photo," he concluded.

Derived terms

• astrophoto
• file photo
• photo paper, photopaper

Translations

Verb

photo (third-person singular simple present photos, present participle photoing, simple past and past participle photoed)

1. (transitive) To take a photograph of.
   • [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter [2]

     What fun to be photoed together, / What luck for a break so opportune. / Oh, what a lark / To be posed in the park / Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.

   • 1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine [3]

     He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.

   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [4]

     Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

Related terms

• photog
• photographer

Translations

See also

• photo-
• photosensitive
• photosynthesis, photosynthesize
• photogenic
• photocell
• photo finish
• photo opportunity
• snapshot

French

Etymology

Clipping of photographie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?.to/, /fo.to/
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

photo f (plural photos)

1. photo

Derived terms

Further reading

• “photo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

Coined by André Blondel in 1921. See photo-.

Noun

phot (plural phots)

1. A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).

Etymology 2

Clipping of photograph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

phot (third-person singular simple present phots, present participle photting, simple past and past participle photted)

1. (informal) to photograph

Anagrams

• Poth, hopt, toph